About the Editors
Guiguo Wang is University Professor and Scholar of“1000 Talents”, Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou, China; Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law, School of Law, Tulane University, in New Orleans, USA;President of the International Academy of the Belt and Road, in Hong Kong, China;Chairman of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute; Chairman of the National Committee(Hong Kong, China)and Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; former Dean of School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, China and former Director of the Centre for Judicial Education and Research, City University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, China; and Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Economic Law.
Professor Wang has an arbitration experience for more than 20 years. He is now President of Hangzhou International Arbitration Court and is an arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Beijing Arbitration Commission, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Panel of Arbitrators of Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and Chinese Arbitration Association of Taiwan, China.
Professor Wang, holder of the JSD degree from Yale Law School and LLM degree from Columbia Law School, is the first person from the Chinese mainland to obtain the JSD degree from Yale Law School since 1949. Having obtained the JSD degree from Yale, he worked in several world-renowned law firms in countries and regions such as the United States, Canada and Hong Kong of China.
Professor Wang used to be an official at the Department of Law and Treaties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. At the recommendation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he became the first Chinese recipient of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research fellowship which enabled him to participate in the seminars offered by the International Court of Justice and to study at The Hague Academy of International Law, the United Nations and the World Bank in 1980.
In the summer of 2010, Professor Wang served as a special lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law and gave a series of lectures on“Radiating Impact of WTO on Its Members' Legal System: The Chinese Perspective”.
Professor Wang has published more than 20 books and over 100 journal articles in established journals in China and other countries. His Legal Order of International Trade published by the Law Press in 1987 is one of the earliest treatises on the GATT. Professor Wang's main works include: Sino-American Economic Exchanges:The Legal Contributions(1984); International Banking and Financial Law(1988);Contemporary Legal Prescriptions for International Investment(1988); China's Investment Law: The New Directions(1988); International Economic Law(1992);Wang's Business Law of China(4th ed., 2003); The Law of the WTO(2003);International Trade Law(2004); The Law of the WTO: China and the Future of Free Trade(2005); International Monetary and Financial Law(3rd ed., 2007);International Investment Law(2nd ed.,2008); “Radiating Impact of WTO on Its Members'Legal System: The Chinese Perspective”, Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 349(2010); International Investment Law: A Chinese Perspective(in English)(2015); International Law Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative(co-ed.)(2016); Dispute Resolution Mechanism for the Belt and Road Initiative(co-ed.)(2017).
Dr Yuk-Lun Lee is a Justice of the Peace. He graduated from Lincoln University, USA in 2009 with an honorary doctorate of Management, and was elected as the academician of Canadian Chartered Institute of Business Administration(CCIBA). In 2014, he obtained his Master of Business Administration at the University of Wales Newport, UK. Now, Dr Lee is studying for the collaborative PhD degree programme with Fudan University(APRU)and Stanford University.
Dr Lee is also keen on charity affairs, and is Chairman(2017/2018)of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Founding Chairman of Phoenix Charitable Foundation, Honorary Permanent President of Hong Kong Commerce and Industry Associations, China. He also serves as Chairman of Pico Zeman Asset Management Limited and Volk Favor Food Company Limited, Vice President of the International Academy of the Belt and Road, committee member of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, committee member of CPPCC Beijing Committee, Director of China Overseas Friendship Association and member of Board of New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
Dr Priscilla Mei-Fun Leung has taught at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong for 24 years and is specialised in Chinese Law, Hong Kong Basic Law and conflicts of law amongst the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Dr Leung is the Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. She is Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong; Barrister-at-Law; and Arbitrator(CIETAC). She received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award of the Year 2000.
Dr Leung has published different articles and books on the above areas both in English and Chinese, including the China Law Reports series(in English), the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Awards series(in English)and Hong Kong Basic Law: Hybrid of Chinese Law and Common Law(published in 2007 in English). Her publications also include Comparative Studies of Family Law between Chinese Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong published by the Joint Publishing House in June 2003(in Chinese)and Legal Reform of China(coed.)in 1994.